Comments on: PowerPoint in Education: Academic Presentations

By: Jessica Pyne

Jessica Pyne — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:26:51 +0000

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By: trainee teacher

trainee teacher — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:39:12 +0000

I’ve just been condemned for bad presentation skills with unfriendly slides and more disengaged students of 15 years old.

Your tips here are really true. I shouldn’t put in all my information in the slides in a too enthusiastic attitude to let my students have a copy to revisit after my lessons.
I should let it be a “conversation” enhancements, to my delivery. I will pepper it with interactive activities of points I covered. I will get them to present back to me, what I just showed with visuals and videos, with matching sentences as definitions to key concept words.

thanks.

By: Joby Blume

Joby Blume — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:44:09 +0000

Janice, Papershow is pretty interesting. We’re always looking for technology that helps presenters deliver interesting presentations. For those who don’t want to learn anything too sophisticated with PowerPoint, but who to use technology when presenting, Papershow is definitely worth a look.

By: Janice Tomich

Janice Tomich — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:51:43 +0000

I’ve just been through 3 years of far too many ppt lectures. When I look back, I remember very little of what was presented. I do remember the classes and material where engaging discussion was the norm. And as mentioned above not surprising.

Thank you for the introduction to Papershow. Looks like an interesting resource.

By: Joby Blume

Joby Blume — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:01:46 +0000

Rowan – that’s a really interesting experiment. Somehow not surprising.

By: Rowan Manahan

Rowan Manahan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:51:33 +0000

So true – and the atrocious ppt virus is spreading throughout every level of academe.

I tried an interesting experiment with 2 academics this year, both of who had been receiving poor scores from their student evaluations. I gave each of them a presenter remote and disconnected their laptops from the data projector. They still had their roadmap/autocue in easy sight and their students were no longer distracted (or irritated!) by their appalling slides.

Over two semesters, their evaluation scores rose from an average of 4.5 to an average of 7.75.